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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Posted by Haiam Aboul-Ela at 3:08 AM

Haiam Aboul-Ela: My primary scientific field is "Biochemistry"; I've been specialized in "Environmental Biotechnology" using modern techniques for evaluation of the pollution impact on marine creatures. These techniques included both Biochemical and molecular determinations, such as assessment of some enzymatic biomarkers (such as Catalase, GPX, SOD …etc) and non-enzymatic biomarkers (such as Lipid peroxidation index; MDA). Molecular determinations included extraction of DNA from different sources of marine organisms, Agarose Gel Electrophoresis, PCR and DNA damage assessment. My research field now is focusing on drug discovery from many sources of marine origin either being micro or macro organisms.